State and National Leaders Discuss New “Beyond Recidivism” Guidance
September 2025
This month, the CSG Justice Center hosted a webinar where national experts and state corrections leaders discussed practical strategies and insights to implement our new brief, Beyond Recidivism: Redefining Measures to Understand Reentry Success.
The recidivism rate only tells part of the story after incarceration—yet it’s often the go-to way to measure reentry success. To truly track trajectories after jail or prison and keep people from going back, states need to look beyond recidivism.